To the editor,
I’d like to say how much I appreciate Mike Wilson’s thoughtful, from-the-heart editorial “Make time” in last week’s Wingham Advance Times.
So many of us get caught up in the busyness of life and, as Mike said, “forget or choose to push off, the important things in our lives such as family.” Unfortunately, we often do that until it is too late.
In the Huron Quaker worship group (house church) to which my wife and I have belonged for many years, we have sometimes reflected on this as “the tyranny of the urgent over what is really important.” Creating a quiet time and space in our lives to take stock and figure out what really is important is time well-spent, whether that be in the setting of a church/meditation, fishing, gardening, reading poetry, or in the quiet early-morning hours looking at the wonderful sunrises we’ve had the last few days. Slowing down when possible, reducing the number of things crammed into each day, seems to help a lot. Also taking time to really listen to others, listening to the spirit sometimes hidden behind the words.
I hope to more often take the advice that Mike offered: “Turn off…spend what time you can with the people in your lives that you love.”
Brent Bowyer
RR#2 Wingham
